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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Optional (in Function Statement)</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"><bookmark_value>Optional function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149205" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104100.xhp" name="Optional (in Function Statement)">Optional (in Function Statement)</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US">Allows you to define parameters that are passed to a function as optional.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155419" xml-lang="en-US">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104000.xhp" name="IsMissing">IsMissing</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US">Function MyFunction(Text1 As String, Optional Arg2, Optional Arg3)</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145610" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Examples:</paragraph>
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    <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US">Result = MyFunction("Here", 1, "There") ' all arguments are passed.</paragraph>
    <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US">Result = MyFunction("Test", ,1) ' second argument is missing.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US">See also <link href="text/sbasic/guide/sample_code.xhp" name="Examples">Examples</link>.</paragraph>
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